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AUTOMATICS SLUSH DISPENSING MACHINE

  • US 3,638,392 A
  • Filed: 02/20/1970
  • Issued: 02/01/1972
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/20/1970
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a dispensing machine including a storage container carrying a liquid, solid particle slurry material of highly changeable viscosity and having an outlet for discharging material therefrom, means positioning a receptacle in material filling position beneath said storage container outlet for gravity discharge therein, the improvement comprising:

  • a closed measuring container lying intermediate said storage container outlet and said receptacle and having its upper end in communication with said container outlet and its lower end overlying said receptacle, a small diameter vent for said measuring container, electrically operated valve means associated with said measuring container for controlling discharge of material from storage container through said outlet into said measuring container, and discharge of material from said measuring container into said receptacle, and spaced electrodes carried by said measuring container for measuring accumulation of a set volume of said slurry material within said measuring container and operatively coupled to said valve means to terminate the flow of material from said storage container to said measuring container and to discharge said measured volume of material from said measuring container into said underlying receptacle, said vent acting as a viscous damping means for slurry flow into and out of said measuring container.

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